As Super Rugby preparations are underway by all franchises early in January, a quick peek at some of the things popping out at the Cell C Sharks.
We take a quick look at Brendan Venter’s role while Gary Gold is still in Japan. Renaldo Bothma tells of his tremendous growth at the Sharks in pre-season and Giant Mtyanda is drafted in to train with the Sharks as extra lock cover.
Brendan Venter takes charge:
Brendan Venter has taken charge of the Sharks in pre-season with Director or Rugby Gary Gold still tied up with his commitments in Japan.
Gold was named Sharks Director of Rugby in October last year after the departure of Jake White.
But he still has commitments in Japan where he is finishing his stint as coach of the Kobe Steel Kobelco Steelers. Gold will join the Sharks early next month when they tackle French and European champions Toulon in a friendly clash.
In the meantime, Venter will prepare the team for this year’s Super Rugby competition. Venter helped coach the Sharks to Currie Cup glory in 2013 before White was given the head coaching job in Durban.
Throughout the year, Venter will offer insights to the Sharks in an advisory capacity.
Assistant coaches Brad MacLeod-Henderson, Sean Everitt and Paul Anthony are also on hand as the Sharks prepare for a training game against a team made up of various Durban clubs in two weeks, before heading off to France.
Renaldo Bothma:
New Sharks recruit Renaldo Bothma says his game has grown in leaps and bounds since coming under the pupilage of the Sharks and their technical director, Brendan Venter.
Bothma, who joined the Sharks in November last year after a stellar season with the Pumas in the Currie Cup, says he has developed at a rapid pace as a player since pre-season began at the Sharks mid-November.
The Sharks coaching set-up has a very different shape to the usual three-coach system that most teams adopt with Gary Gold heading up the team as Director of Rugby surrounded by a number of other men.
Brendan Venter is acting as an advisor for the season, but at present he is taking the lead in Gold’s absence, Currie cup coaches Brad Mcleod-Henderson (head coach), Sean Everitt (backline coach) and Paul Anthony (forwards caoch) as well as Michael Horack (defence coach) and Brad Mooar (specialist attack advisor) are all there in assistance.
“I have been enjoying it a lot and I have learned plenty form Brendan and all of the other guys,” Bothma said.
“I am growing as a player and I am looking forward to the season.
“I am feeling a lot more confident at the beginning of this season in comparison to this time last year, the time with Brendan, Brad, Sean Everitt and all the guys coaching us has helped me grow.
“I have developed so much in the last couple of weeks.”
Bothma puts his growth down to the Sharks multitude of coaches as well as the famed ‘Venter factor’
“Brendan is leading everything at the moment until Gary returns from Japan,” he continued.
“It makes it a bit easier having all these coaches around, every coach has a role to play and it makes the job a lot easier for Brendan and especially for the players.
“There are a lot of coaches looking at everything that we are doing so we are getting a lot of personal attention in the smaller details.
“If you are doing something wrong in defence for instance, there are a number of coaches who will come up to you and explain things further after training, it makes a huge difference to have a lot of coaches like that.”
Bothma is unsurprisingly looking to make an impact and to get as much game time as possible with the 2014 South African conference winners, as such he is willing to play anywhere to get on the park.
“I am quite mobile so I can play any position in the loose trio and for me, at this moment, as long as I get game time and get on the field I don’t care what position I play,” Bothma said
“I have enough belief in the coaches that they will put me in the right position for the benefit of the team.
“I am looking forward to the next couple of weeks and the start of the season so I can see where I am skills-wise and to see how much I have learnt in my short time with the Sharks.”
Giant Mtyanda:
Pumas lock Lubabalo “Giant” Mtyanda is training with the Sharks as they prepare for the Super Rugby competition.
The Sharks returned for pre-season training earlier this week, where a number of new faces were on show.
With Stephan Lewies still on the sidelines and Pieter-Steph du Toit still working his way back to fitness after a long injury lay-off, Mtyanda has been drafted into the Sharks squad as extra cover in the second row.
Mtyanda, 28, performed adequately for the Pumas in last year’s Currie Cup Premier Division and now has an opportunity to stake a claim for a place in the Sharks’ Super Rugby squad.
Assistant coach Sean Everitt said that Mtyanda was drafted in as back-up and that he’s done well in training. He also said the lock was thriving in their environment and settled in very well in Durban.
The Sharks will start their pre-season with a training game against a team made up of various Durban clubs in two weeks, before heading overseas to face the French and European champions, Toulon on 5 February.
They start their Super Rugby campaign at home against the Cheetahs on 14 February.
Nama wrote:
Nee Graad Een, in die TOD was dit Graad Een
Ek onthou in Std 6 het ons ‘n outjie van die Kaap in ons klas gekry, hy het vreeslik gebrei
Hy moes die heeltyd vir ons skêr sê, skêggghhh, dit was vir ons te mooi
Hy ook nie van sy tas gepraat nie maar van sy koffer
grootblousmile wrote:
Ek onthou iets van “Piet Pierewiet” ek dink dit was ‘n budgie
90 @ Nama:
Genade, slaat my met ‘n nat vis… ek kan dit nie onthou nie
grootblousmile wrote:
Meisies?
Moes wees
Nama wrote:
Ons het vier kwartale gehad toe ek in Gr 1 was, maar daarna het verander na drie termyne toe
92 @ Victoriabok:
Dit is Mossie
Dit is Baas
Mossie sit
Baas staan
Boek moertoe, deurgelees!
Hehehe
Ek dink in Graad 2 het ons die boek van Pofmuis gehad
94 @ Victoriabok:
Ja, dit en rugby…
My meisie in Std 2 was Tiana du Toit…. sy was so mooi fyn klein dogtertjie
My meisie in Std 3 was die burgermeester se dogter, Tessie McGreggor… met so klompie mooi sproetjies
@ Victoriabok:
Hahaha… hy’t seker weer vreeslik snaaks gekry as julle se “mo en po” pleks van “ma en pa”
Nama wrote:
Nee boet, ons was nie in Waterkloof nie, ons was Noord van die berg
Dis meer GBS se mense daai 😛
Praat van ‘n “Stronthuis”, dog eers hulle het nog ‘n buitetoilet toe vind ek uit dis hoe die rykgatte hulle vakansieplek by die see noem
grootblousmile wrote:
Pofmuis klink soos iets wat Nataniel of Casper de Vries van sal hou
@ Victoriabok:
stronthuis…hahaha…
Ek onthou in std 9 was ons Hollandse voorgeskrewe boek “Die Koning van Katoren”
Op een plek skryf hy “soos een poes met ‘n bakje melk”
Ons het gerol soos ons lag
Die Afrikaanse ondewyser het homself in ‘n ander bloedgroep in gebloos
Victoriabok wrote:
Praat van ‘n “Stronthuis”, dog eers hulle het nog ‘n buitetoilet toe vind ek uit dis hoe die rykgatte hulle vakansieplek by die see noem
haha 😆
> Super Rugby: Sharks – Training news and titbits
I’ve read the whole article and still haven’t found the “titbits”
Where are the “Titbits” GBS? 😆
104 @ Victoriabok:
Jou ou spuls Kanadoos, dis nie tits & bits nie… dis titbits
grootblousmile wrote:
Ek weet dis waarvan ek praat, die “bits”
Die puntjies wat regop staan
grootblousmile wrote:
Juffrou vra die klas wat die word “Oordosis” beteken
Sy vra eers vir voor-op-die-wa Sannie
Sannie: “Juffrou my Ma sê met die nuwe Super Rugby seisoen gaan daar ‘n oordosis rugby op die televisie wees”
Toe vra sy vir Kosie
Kosie:”Juffrou gisteraand op die nuus was daar ‘n dwelmslaaf wat ‘n oordosis heroien ingespuit het”
Laaste vra sy vir Jannie (klein GBS?) ‘n regte stoutgat
Jannie: “Juffrou my Ma het vanoggend vir my Pa gesê:
“As jy oor werk was soos jy oor doos is was ons al skatryk””
107 @ Victoriabok:
Janee, BonzaiGBS het definitief ‘n case van oordosis!
grootblousmile wrote:
Ry hy gereeld wol schooter?
@ Victoriabok:
scooter
109 @ Victoriabok:
Ek vra nou nie juis vir my seun sy sake nie… maar hy het ‘n mooi meisie, Heidi.
Ek gaan hom mos nou nie vra of hy met die plat karretjie met die wolwielletjies ry nie…
Nou kom sy ou Pa mos tweede, en die meisie kry baaaaie aandag, jong.
Maar die man is OK, daasie foutie!
Ek het hom gewaarsku ek willie oupa wees nie!
MacroBull wrote:
Hi MacroBull, guess its a bit difficult to fully grasp when its translated but where did you find this piece and what was it about, just curious as to why they would ‘quote’ Jake White saying something about playing in Montauban when he coaches a Top14 team so shouldn’t be going to play there anyway?
@ Bullscot:
He considers pro d2 beneath him. The quotes were embarassement to his boss who had to release an official apology.
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